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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: The Crack City Strangler: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins w/B.R. Bates
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents: The Crack City Strangler: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins with Researcher/Journalist/Author, B.R. Bates!
Benjamin "Tony" Atkins' reign of terror in Detroit spanned less than a year in the early 1990s. Known for targeting vulnerable women in Detroit's most dangerous neighborhoods, Atkins attacked at least 13 women along a mile-and-a-half stretch of Woodward Avenue, one of the city's most iconic streets.
Known as "the nation's fastest serial killer," Atkins' crimes were brutal and relentless, leaving victims abandoned in the dark corners of the Cass Corridor and Highland Park. Only when t...